D06
Queen’s Gambit
1. d4 d5 2. c4
The Queen’s Gambit offers the c4-pawn to deflect Black’s d5-pawn and gain central control. Black rarely keeps the pawn; the real fight is over the center and piece activity.
It produces clean, instructive positions and is one of the best openings to learn classical strategy — minority attacks, isolated queen’s pawns, and piece coordination.
Key plans
- Queen’s Gambit Declined (2...e6) is the most solid for Black.
- The Slav (2...c6) keeps the light-squared bishop free.
- Learn the minority attack and the isolated-pawn middlegames.
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